The hegemonic confrontation between the United States and China slides seamlessly into the scenario known as the THUCYDID TRAP. There is a determined and manifest will to go to the very end, once the pandemic crisis has abated. The conflict is two-faced in that the escalation is taking place simultaneously on two war fields. One, the unconventional and fifth generation that is called commercial, where China will try to impose its two new Silk Roads (the Arctic and the Indo-Pacific), without neglecting the objective of being the first; at the same time, the United States fights to avoid at all costs that it achieves it, at the risk of being displaced as the first world power. On the other hand, in this investigation, we have predicted that the struggle will be staged with all certainty from 2021 on, given that the actors in the struggle already show their military power  in the scenario we have called THE THUCYDIDES RAMP UP.

A book by Vladimir Padrino López (Caracas, 1963), English version, Eudenio Mendoza

Venezuelan military, currently Vice President of Sovereignty, Security and Peace,  and Minister of People’s Power for Defense of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela.